William Gascoigne

William Gascoigne (1350-17 December 1419) was Chief Justice of England during the reign of Henry IV of England.

Biography
William Gascoigne was the descendant of an ancient Yorkshire family, and he studied law at the Inner Temple. Soon after King Henry IV of England's accession to the throne, Gascoigne was made chief justice of the court of the King's bench. In 1405, following the suppression of the northern uprising, Gascoigne reluctantly pronounced the death sentence against Archbishop of York Richard le Scrope and Earl Marshal Thomas Mowbray, 4th Earl of Norfolk, having pushed for the two to be tried by their peers instead of being summarily executed on the King's orders, which they were. He died in 1419.